Duo d'Accord

Music critic Joe Banno of The Washington Post called the duo's recent performance "the most virtuosic and the most musically satisfying performance." (February 2005) Duo d'Accord, the young two-piano team of Munich's Sebastian Euler and Taiwanese Lucia Huang has also been observed as "one of the leading piano duos of the new generation" by the Taiwanese newspaper Taipeh Times. After the duo's First Prize victory in 2001 at the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition in Miami, The Miami Herald wrote "the twosome displayed the closest-knit dialogue in the concertos" and with "balanced beauty of tone and technique."

Duo d'Accord has given critically acclaimed performances throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, including prestigious venues such as the Mozarteum Salzburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Taipeh National Theatre, Herkulessaal Munich, Lincoln Theatre Miami, Casino Locarno, Chopin Akademie Warsaw, Casino Basel, Max-Joseph-Saal, the Gasteig Munich and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. The artists have performed at major festivals, including Musica Riva Festival, Italy, Locarno Festival, Switzerland, and in Germany at the Max Reger Festival Weiden, Klavierwoche Heidelberg and the Piano Festival Munich. The duo's appearances with major orchestras include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miami Symphony Orchestra and the Taipeh Symphony Orchestra.

Most recent highlights of Duo d'Accord in 2005/2006 included a new CD release on Oehms Classics premiering Robert Schumann's work for Piano Quintet, transcribed by Clara Schumann for four hands for duet (Spring 2006). Duo d'Accord participated as Jury members of the 2005 Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition in Miami. They performed recitals throughout Germany and were broadcast on MDR Radio, Leipzig. During their tour of the Far East, the duo will appear in Taiwan and in China, where they will make their orchestral debut with the China National Symphony Orchestra at Beijing Concert Hall (Fall 2006)

Earlier this past season, the duo was heard at Munich's Prinzregententheater, Kongresshalle Telfs, Bavarian Radio BR4, Hamburg Radio NDR, Leipzig Radio MDR, Beethovenfest Bonn and Schloss Elmau. They also were featured artists in the United States, Panama, Switzerland and in Austria. In 2004, Duo d'Accord released a new CD on Oehms Classics featuring works by Max Reger: Six Burlesques for one piano four hands; the Beethoven-Variations for two pianos, and Six Pieces, op. 94.

In recent seasons, Bavarian Radio in Munich recorded various concerts of Duo d'Accord, including works of Richard Strauss' Don Juan, one piano four hands, and Camille-Saint-Saens' Beethoven-Variations for two pianos in addition to works by Brahms, Debussy, Infante, Lutoslawski, Mendelssohn, and Ravel.

Lucia Huang and Sebastian Euler began their careers as soloists and established themselves as a duo in 1999. Since then, Duo d'Accord has won, in addition to its First Prize in Miami in 2001, Second Prize at the 2000 International ARD Radio Music Competition in Munich and First Prize at the 2000 International Chamber Music Competition in Verona, Italy. Their repertoire includes masterworks of the piano duo literature from J.S. Bach to Ligeti, the rarely performed works by Schumann, Reger, Strauss and Ravel, as well as works by such American composers as Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem, John Corigliano, Aaron Copland and Lowell Lieberman. Both Lucia Huang and Sebastian Euler graduated from the Musikhochschule in Munich, where they both were under the tutelage of Prof. Karl-Hermann Mrongovius.